12 Best canada books like Coming Up for Air by Sarah Leipciger

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Coming Up for Air

By: Sarah Leipciger

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Three extraordinary lives intertwine across oceans and centuries. On the banks of the River Sein…

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1. Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters

By: Susan Forward , Donna Frazier

4.23

Format: 304 pages, ebook

With Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters, Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of the sma… read more

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  • mental health
"Criticism is the fountainhead of control."

-Susan Forward, Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters

"Charlene had controlled Karen for so long, she had every reason to believe her daughter would buckle, that she'd never have to follow through on her threats."

-Susan Forward, Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters

"...many daughters may never have given themselves permission to even 'consider' changing the relationship with their mothers, because they didn't think they had the right to do it."

-Susan Forward, Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters

"The healing process kicks into gear with with the words "This is what you did to me." That statement is not gentle or polite; it's absolutely direct. In fact, I know that seeing it might feel like a …"

-Susan Forward, Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters

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2. Vi

By: Kim Thúy

3.73

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Mon prénom, Bào Vi, illustrait l'intention de mes parents de «protéger la plus petite». Si l'on t… read more

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  • canada
  • historical
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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3. The Lavender Keeper (Luc & Lisette #1)

By: Fiona McIntosh

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

Are you German or are you French? Are you working against Germany or for it? Are you telling me the… read more

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  • historical
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Lala

By: Jacek Dehnel

3.86

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

Jest rok 1919. W Kielcach przychodzi na swiat dziewczynka. Roztargniona rodzina przez piec lat nie … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

5. The Daughters of Ireland

By: Santa Montefiore

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Ireland. 1925. The war is over. But life will never be the same... In the green hills of West Cork,… read more

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6. Cinco esquinas

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

3.80

Format: 25 pages,

En Cinco Esquinas, Mario Vargas Llosa crea un mural riquisimo en detalles y contrastes en el que pe… read more

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7. Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)

By: Eden Robinson

3.82

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the Giller-shortlisted author of the classi… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
"He wasn't going to be alone after she died, but the world was going to be a lonelier place without her."

-Eden Robinson, Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)

8. Pakalnučių metai

By: Jurga Ivanauskaitė

4.24

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It was her first book of short stories - Pakalnuciu metai (The Year of the Lilies of the Valley)- p… read more

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9. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

By: Laura Cumming

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

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10. Last House

By: Jessica Shattuck

3.64

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

"An ambitious historical epic that doubles as an intimate family saga. Jessica Shattuck captures an… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Cookbook Club: A Novel of Food and Friendship

By: Beth Harbison

3.67

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Beth Harbison whips together a witty and charming--and delicious-… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Maybe it was the hormones, maybe it was her own natural sense of pride, Aja wasn't sure what it was, but her anger suddenly rolled up inside of her like a special effect from one of the Harry Potter …"

-Beth Harbison, The Cookbook Club: A Novel of Food and Friendship

"What'd you bring?" "The Sweet and and Salty Coconut Rice from the first Cravings book." "Yum! I almost made that, since I did the Shake and Bake Chicken with Hot Honey and the garlic and soy shrimp. …"

-Beth Harbison, The Cookbook Club: A Novel of Food and Friendship

"She remembered a restaurant she'd gone to in San Francisco, years before. Delfina? That was it. She'd had delicious sourdough bread there, painted with butter. Fragrant, crisp-on-the-outside Saffron …"

-Beth Harbison, The Cookbook Club: A Novel of Food and Friendship

"During the few brief moments she had quiet, Trista worked on the infused liquors she loved experimenting with. It wasn't enough to just pull ordinary taps and serve boxed wine and Bubba burgers. She …"

-Beth Harbison, The Cookbook Club: A Novel of Food and Friendship

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12. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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14. The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . .

By: Rick Mercer

4.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Rick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoir At the end … read more

Similar categories in Rick Mercer's The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . . book and Sarah Leipciger's Coming Up for Air

  • canada
  • audiobook
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15. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers

By: Sara Ackerman

3.90

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

When her husband mysteriously disappears and rumors swirl about his loyalties, a mother must rely o… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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18. A New Season

By: Terry Fallis

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From beloved and bestselling author Terry Fallis comes a novel unlike any of his others. A thoughtf… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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19. Drawing Home

By: Jamie Brenner

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An unexpected inheritance, a promise broken, and four lives changed forever: the newest page-turner… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Darwin Affair

By: Timothy Mason

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Get ready for one of the most inventive and entertaining novels of 2019—an edge-of-your-seat Victor… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. West

By: Carys Davies

3.70

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of Bess, reads in the newspaper that huge anci… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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22. The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family

By: Lindsay Wong

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian fa… read more

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  • audiobook
  • canada
  • mental health
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23. Rabbit Foot Bill

By: Helen Humphreys

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a local outsider in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking mur… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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24. A View Across the Rooftops

By: Suzanne Kelman

4.44

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

An unforgettable story of love, hope and betrayal, and a testament to the courage of humanity in hi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"One doesn't know how brave one is until the cost outweighs the fear."

-Suzanne Kelman, A View Across the Rooftops

"There was something so wrong about war, something so horrific and soul-destroying that she hadn't ever contemplated, until now, as the senseless loss of life crushed her. On one side you were cripple…"

-Suzanne Kelman, A View Across the Rooftops

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25. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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26. The Rain Watcher

By: Tatiana de Rosnay

3.19

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

The Rain Watcher is a powerful family drama set in Paris as the Malegarde family gathers to celebra… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"I will start with the tree. Because everything begins, and ends, with the tree. The tree is the tallest one. It was planted way before the others. I'm not sure how old it is, exactly. Perhaps three o…"

-Tatiana de Rosnay, The Rain Watcher

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27. I'd Give Anything

By: Marisa de los Santos

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Walked In and Belong to Me comes a profound and … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What if grief isn't only missing people and being sad? That's how we usually think about it. But what if it's just -- reckoning with their being gone and with knowing they're never coming back?"

-Marisa de los Santos, I'd Give Anything

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28. Songs for the End of the World

By: Saleema Nawaz

3.83

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

"In these dark days, Saleema Nawaz dares to write of hope. Songs for the End of the World is a lovi… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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29. Coming Up for Air

By: Sarah Leipciger

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Three extraordinary lives intertwine across oceans and centuries. On the banks of the River Sein… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Leipciger's Coming Up for Air book and Sarah Leipciger's Coming Up for Air

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • mental health
  • death
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of Diane demande un recomptage by Marie-Renée Lavoie

30. Diane demande un recomptage

By: Marie-Renée Lavoie

3.78

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

« — Jacques (j’ai soufflé intérieurement, du calme, Diane, du calme)… j’ai des amis incroyables, un… read more

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  • fiction
  • france
  • canada
  • audiobook
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31. real ones

By: Katherena Vermette

4.10

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Mich… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook

24 best-selling fiction books like Coming Up for Air by Sarah Leipciger

Transform Your Habits

Vi

Kim Thúy

3.73

Transform Your Habits

The Lavender Keeper (Luc & Lisette #1)

Fiona McIntosh

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Lala

Jacek Dehnel

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)

Eden Robinson

3.82

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16 Top audiobook books like The Road Years: A Memoir, Continued . . . by Rick Mercer

Transform Your Habits

My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)

Chris Hadfield

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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